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When star casting pays off as handsomely as this it’s a thrill to watch. Although it seems to be almost by stealth that Hollywood veterans Bill Pullman and Sally Field, 65 and 72 respectively, creep up and grab the audience by the jugular in Jeremy Herrin’s excellent production of Arthur Miller’s first masterpiece.

For All My Sons, Miller’s 1947 examination of loss, honour and betrayal in one middle-class Ohio family in the aftermath of the Second World War, at first focuses on the younger generation. Pullman and Field play factory owner Joe and his wife Kate Keller, parents to the high-minded Chris (Colin Morgan) and his older brother Larry. Larry, a fighter pilot, has gone missing in the war...